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	Current version of Patti Smith Lyrics Babelogue (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/patti-smith/babelogue/) Current version of the lyrics						Version 2 of Patti Smith Lyrics Babelogue (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/patti-smith/babelogue/v2.html) Version 2 of the lyrics
1	I haven't fucked much with the past						I haven't fucked much with the past,	1
2	But I've fucked plenty with the future						but I've fucked plenty with the future.	2
3	Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters						Over the skin of silk are scars from the	3
4	Of     stations and walls I've caressed						splinters of stations and walls I've caressed.	4
5							A stage is like each bolt of wood,	5
6	A stage is like each bolt of wood like a						like a log of Helen, is my pleasure.	6
7	Like a log               of Helen, is my pleasure						I would measure the success of a night by the way	7
8	I would measure     the success of a night						by the way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude	8
9	By the way by          the way by the amount of piss						over the columns that nestled the P.A.	9
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2	And seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A.							2
	Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off						Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off
10	With a skirt of green net sewed over						with a skirt of green net sewed over with	10
11	With flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed						flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed.	11
12							The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil,	12
13	The lights were violet and white, I had an ornamental veil						but                                    I couldn't bear to use it. When my hair was cropped,	13
14	But I couldn't bear to use it, when my hair was cropped						I craved covering, but now            my hair itself is a veil,	14
15	I craved covering but now that my hair itself is a veil						and the scalp inside                              is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy	15
16	And the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy						Comanche lies beneath this netting           of the skin.	16
17							I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully	17
18	Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin						and my knees are open to the sun.	18
19	I wake up, I am lying peacefully, I am lying peacefully						I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me.	19
20	And my knees are open to the sun						In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an American;	20
21	I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me						in heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an American artist,	21
22							and I have no guilt. I seek pleasure.	22
23	In, in heart I am a Moslem, in heart I am an American						I seek the nerves under your skin. The narrow archway;	23
24	In heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an American artist						the layers; the scroll of ancient letters.	24
25	And I have no guilt						We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly,	25
26							the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore.	26
27	I seek pleasure, I seek the nerves under your skin						He spared                     the child and spoiled the rod.	27
28	The narrow archway, the layers, the scroll of ancient lettuce						I have not sold myself to God.	28
3	We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly							3
4	The mole on the belly of an exquisite whore							4
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6	He spared the child and spoiled the rod							6
7	I have not sold myself to God							7

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